I don’t know why I had the urge to go to ABC Books yesterday. I was not on a Christmas shopping trip, per se, although I did buy some gift cards for stockings. No author was present to sign books. I guess it was because they posted that they were having a sale (50% off) and because I’ve had a mind to get this year’s James R. Wilder book. I mean, I needed to stop by the comic book store to get some poly bags and a short box to accommodate the comic books I’m re-patriating and the office supply store for printer ink since my printer was having trouble with yellow ink, giving all of the photos in my recent letter to my grandmother a purple cast.
But I got a couple things.
I got:
- The 10 volume Collier edition collection of James Whitcomb Riley poetry that I’ve had my eye on for years. At half price, it was like $35.
- The James R. Wilder book, Killing at Cottage Farm. He’s scheduled to be up at ABC Books to sign it on December 13. Will I go to get a signed copy? Maybe!
- Secrets of the Samurai. The martial arts section was restocked with books about aikido and hapkido and this book. I picked it out because it was like the least expensive; one of the volumes was $250, and another was over $100. I guess during a 50% sale is the time to get them, but I was already looking at $60 when I’m running on a “lean mixture” and am eschewing impulse Amazon purchases.
The other book, What You Need To Know About Masons, I got from church two weeks ago. One campus of the church closed its library and instead of a free book cart, we had three tables of books from which to choose, and this is all I got–my beautiful wife got more than I did for once given that she got two or three books. At that time, I was thinking about how I didn’t really have space for more books and was just now getting them so none were stacked horizontally in front of my bladed weapons. Well, so only a couple were.
So where did these purchases go? I took the books beside the George Bernard Shaw books I bought in 2007 (and spotted here five years ago) to make room for the Riley set, and then I stacked those and the remainder horizontally in front of the bladed weapons.
I guess I’d better get back to reading.
